"A person from my era?" Chen Hao's eyes fluttered several times, his face filled with confusion. "Someone from the same era as me! How could they possibly have appeared over a thousand years ago?"

Man Qingting shook her head, saying coldly, "I'm not clear on the specifics, I just know he is from the City of Yin and Time."

"The City of Yin and Time?" Chen Hao furrowed his brows, thinking to himself that it seemed he had heard of this place somewhere. "Where is the City of Yin and Time?"

Again, Man Qingting shook her head and sighed, "I'm not clear on that either. Not long after you and dad buried me, you went out with the child to seek revenge, and dad returned to the snowy mountains. It was during the time you both were away that he used his own blood to awaken me. After waking up, I went to look for you, but then..."

As she spoke, Man Qingting's expression grew somber, her voice hoarse and soft as she continued, "In this life, you are known as an Onmyoji, so you must know that once a zombie tastes human blood, it can no longer control itself. On my way to find you, I killed a few people. Although I eventually found you, I was afraid of being rejected by you, so I never dared to show myself in front of you, quietly following you instead."

"And after Ye Heng died, you've been living alone until now?"

Man Qingting shook her head, her brows slightly furrowed, her whole presence exuding a chilling sadness. After a long time, she replied, "Not exactly. I followed you for two years and, at one time, when you were gravely injured, I rescued you. As soon as I smelled the blood on you, I lost control. Fortunately, that girl appeared just in time to save you from my clutches and almost got her hand bitten by me."

"Yuqiao?" Chen Hao's heart trembled violently. At this moment, he was eager to know what had happened to Ye Heng after Man Qingting's long slumber.

"It was her!" Man Qingting smiled slightly, nodding her head, "After that, I no longer followed you. Not wanting to harm the innocent again, I thought of self-immolation. Then, that man appeared again and rescued me from the raging fire."

"The one from the City of Yin and Time?"

Man Qingting nodded and said, "Yes! He told me that he had seen me a thousand years later, in this era, and said he knew a way to help me rid myself of the zombie blood, urging me not to seek death again. He also mentioned that I would definitely meet a different you again, and it turned out he was right. Later, he placed a seal on me, telling me to rest for a while. Little did I expect that when I awoke, over a thousand years had passed."

"Such an enigmatic person!" Chen Hao couldn't help but exclaim.

"Hmm," Man Qingting twisted her mouth bitterly. After pondering for a long time, she suddenly raised her head to look at Chen Hao, asking softly, "I have an unreasonable request, I don't know if you could grant it?"

"Hmm!" Chen Hao nodded with a smile, "Sure, senior sister, feel free to ask!"

Man Qingting stood up, hesitated for a long while, and with tears brimming in her eyes, she slowly walked towards Chen Hao.

After reaching him, Man Qingting sat down beside Chen Hao, lifting her ice-cold, trembling hands to caress his face, crying, "Junior brother, I'm sorry, I've had you in my heart for so long, yet I always found it difficult to speak!"

At that moment, what Man Qingting saw was that stubborn, introverted Ye Heng.

Having said that, Man Qingting slowly leaned in to kiss Chen Hao, bidding farewell to the Ye Heng of over a thousand years ago in her heart.

Not long after, Man Qingting released Chen Hao, her head lowered as she sobbed, "Thank you for letting me fulfill a millennium-old wish!"

"Actually, you could have admitted your feelings for him over a thousand years ago, which might have spared him so much pain."

Man Qingting smiled knowingly and defended himself, "If it were you now, I might have already spoken out. Actually, you're right, you and he are not the same person at all, very different!"

..

Night had fallen, and the rain had also ceased.

After leaving Man Qingting's home, Chen Hao quickly used his qinggong to return home, picked up the flute from his past life as Ye Heng, and then hurried to the maple forest in the suburbs.

Eager to know what happened between Ye Heng and Ye Yuqiao, he blew the flute again.

It was not until the early morning hours, around five o'clock, that Chen Hao stopped playing.

The moment he opened his eyes, his gaze, flickering with a cold light, had grown much more world-weary, along with a terrifying and icy murderous aura.

"A man is slain every ten steps!" Chen Hao couldn't help but lament, "So my past life took so many lives!"

Remembering the expressions of extreme anger, extreme sorrow, or extreme disdain on the faces of those who died under Ye Heng's sword, Chen Hao couldn't help but shudder with fear in his heart.

It was a long time before Chen Hao could walk out of the cold-heartedness of the mass murderer Ye Heng and find his true self in this life. Immediately afterwards, his thoughts shifted from the bloody scenes to Ye Yuqiao.

Ye Heng first met Ye Yuqiao fifteen days after Ling Yanleng "died." That day, his master left, saying he would return to Snow Mountain. So that night, Ye Heng drank a lot of liquor. In the middle of the night, Ye Yuqiao appeared in a red dress with a golden crown, helping the drunken Ye Heng onto his bed. Unexpectedly, Ye Heng suddenly opened his eyes, mistaking Ye Yuqiao for Man Qingting in his drunken state and forcefully kissed Ye Yuqiao;

Recalling this scene, Chen Hao couldn't help but curse Ye Heng as a "bastard," feeling a pang of sourness in his heart.

The second time meeting Ye Yuqiao was half a year later when Ye Heng, seeking the mastermind behind his parents' murder, found Lu Kang, who had let him go before. From Lu Kang, he learned that the plot to kill his parents was orchestrated by the six sworn brothers who used to address his father as a brother. After his father's death, those six sworn brothers divided his father's power and wealth and later each became one of the major gangs in the martial world.

It was then, while seeking revenge on his father's sworn elder brother, that Ye Heng was ambushed and severely wounded. Later, it was Ye Yuqiao who arrived just before Ye Heng was stabbed in the chest and saved him from death. However, by that time, Ye Heng was almost unconscious;

..

The last time Ye Heng saw Ye Yuqiao before his death was many years later when a Soul Devouring Beast attacked the ancient city of Yang Town. At that time, Ye Heng was living in seclusion within Yang Town. Hearing the cries of the Soul Devouring Beast, Ye Heng leaped onto the city wall of Yang Town. In the end, just as the Soul Devouring Beast was about to consume his soul, Ye Yuqiao appeared and rescued Ye Heng and sealed the Soul Devouring Beast. That time was the first and the last time in his life that Ye Heng saw Ye Yuqiao in a red dress with clear consciousness.

Reflecting on this image, Chen Hao couldn't help but remember the words Ye Yuqiao had said to him when the Soul Devouring Beast appeared not long ago—"Don't you remember it?"; "Over one thousand two hundred years ago, I once sealed this Soul Devouring Beast near here."

At that time, Chen Hao asked Ye Yuqiao, "Haven't you always been in the Netherworld? What were you doing in the mortal world over a thousand years ago?"

Now, Chen Hao finally understood why Ye Yuqiao had said that at the time.

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